Clothes drier



Oct. 13, 1931. F. NEHSMANN 1,827,601

CLOTHES DRIER Filed May 28, 1950 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Allomey Get. 1

F. NEHSMANN CLOTHES DRIER Filed May 28. 1930 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Inverzlor A llomey Patented Oct. 13, 1931 FRED NEHSMANN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CLOTHES DRIER Application filed May 28, 1930.

This invention relates to clothes driers, and more particularly it'pertains to such devices as are capable of use in relatively small rooms and similarly restricted areas.

It: is one of the objects of the present invention to provide a clothes drier of the clothes line type, which isespecially adapted for use in small rooms such as apartment kitchens or the like.

It is another'object of the invention to provide a clothes line which may be filled with articles of clothing to be dried, by a person standing upon the floor of a room and after it has been so filled, may be elevated to a position adjacent the ceiling of a room and out of the way of persons who may be walking around the room.

It is a further object of the invention to provide a device of the aforementioned character wherein a horizontally positioned clothes line may be raised or lowered, and at thesame time may be maintained in a t rue horizontal plane, even though the raising and lowering force be applied to the clothes line at one end only thereof.

Other objects of the invention relate to certain novel and improved constructions, arrangem-ents and combinations of parts hereinafter described and particularly pointed out in the claims, the advantages of which will be readily understood and appreciated. The invention will be clearly understood from the accompanying drawings illustrating the invention in its preferred form and i the following detailed description of the construction therein shown.

In thedrawmgs; Figure 1, 1s a perspective v1ew diagrammatica'lly illustrating a clothes line and its operating mechanism constructed in accordance with the present invention,

Figure 2, is a detail fragmentary view partly in section taken on the line indicated by 7 p the arrow 22 in Figure 1 and Figure 8, is a view partly in elevation and partly in section of a device constructed in accordance with the present invention.

In the present embodiment of the invention, the clothes line is designatedby the reference numeral 10. ,The clothes line is con- Serial No. 456,550.

nected to two continuous members 5 and 6, as at 7 and 8 respectively. The clothes line 10, and the two continuous members 5 and 6 may be ropes or cable or similar flexible members, and the attachment of the clothes line 10 to the members 5 and 6 may be accomplished by knotting or tying at the points 7 and 8, but it is to be understood that suitable fastening means in the form of clips or the like may be employed at these points instead of knotting' if desired.

The continuous member 5 travels around a lower pulley l1 and an upper pulley 12, and the continuous member 6 passes around a lower pulley 13 and an upper pulley 14. The lower pulleys 11 and 13 are of the single type, carried in brackets such as 15. As shown in Figure 2, the upper pulleys 12 and 14 are each mounted in a double bracket 16 and in each of said double brackets 16, there is carried a supplementary pulley, they being lesignated 17 and 18 respectively and the purpose of which will be hereinafter described.

From the foregoing it will be obvious that as the continuous members 5 and 6 are caused to travel about their respective pulleys 11, 12, 13 and A, the clothes lines 10 will be raised or lowered as the case may be, dependent of course upon the direction of movement of the members 5 and 6.

Further it will be apparent that if the members 5and 6 are moved simultaneously at the same rate of speed, the clothes line will at all times remain in a true horizontal plane.

Means is provided whereby the members 5 and 6 may be operated simultaneously in either direction, and at the same rate of speed,

and this operating means is so constructed and arranged that it may be operated from a single point.

The operating means comprises two cords or ropes 20 and 21. The cord 20 is attached at one end as at 22 to the member 5, and extends over the pulleys 12 and 18, is attached as at 2-3 to the member and hangs downwardly from the point of attachment 23 in a free end 24. The member 21 is attached as at 25, to the member 5, extends over the pulleys 17 and 14,.is attac ed as at 26 to the member 6, and hangsdown in a freeend' 27.

The operating members and 21, being attached to opposite legs of themembers 5 and 6, by a single operation of these members20 and 21, the clothes line 10 may be of the operating members, the members 5 and 6 will be operated simultaneously, and consequently. the clothes line will be raised or low ered in a true horizontal plane.

In installing the device, the several pulleys may be attached to suitable frame work car- .-ried by thewalls of the room, to NVlIldOW frames, or in fact may be secured directly to the walls of the room inany desired manner. V 1

Vhile the invention has been herein illustrated in' connection with a clothesline, it will be obvious that it may be usedinother connections. F or example the member 11) could, if desired, carry a curtain in frontof a window, and operation of the device in the manner heretofore described, would effect a raising or lowering ofthe curtain as desired;

Having thus described the invention, What I claim as new and desire to secure by U. S. Letters Patent, is: i c

p 1. A clothesline, a pair of spaced endless members to which said clothesline is attached at its ends, separate supporting means for each ofsaid endless members and means for simultaneously operating said endless members to raise andlower the clothesline.

2. A clothesline, a pair of spaced endless members to which said clothesline is attached leys around which said member is adaptedsimultaneously.

. 5. A clothesline comprising a pair of spaced endless members, separate supporting means for each endless member and comprising a plurality of pulleys around which each endless member passes, said pulleys being arrangedin sets there being one set for.

each endless'member, a second set of pulleys, and operating members passing around said last mentioned set of pulleys, each of said operating members being "attached to each of said endless members whereby to operate them simultaneously. I 7 V v In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

FRED NEHSMAN-N.

atits ends, separate supporting means for 1 each of said endless members and means for simultaneously operating said endless members at the same rate of speed to raise and lower the clothesline, and maintain it in a true horizontal plane during raising and lowering thereof. I c

3. A clothesline, comprising a pair of spaced endless members, separate supporting means for each of said endless members, a pair of closely adjacent operating members, each being attached to bothof said endless members, whereby to operate them simultaneously, and a clothesline attached at its ends to said spacedendless members said clotheslines being raised and lowered by the operation of said endless members.

4. A clothesline comprising a pair ofspaced endless members, separate supporting means for each endless .member, said sup- 

